Design Situation

Local markets can be a 'treasure trove' for unique designs not available in retail stores.

Design Brief

You are to design and make a T-Shirt/Singlet for sale at a local market.
You may use an existing cotton T-Shirt or Singlet which can be decorated . You must incorporate at least one type of fabric decoration on your product, including a digitally designed and produced transfer.

• List any words or phrases that need explaining from the brief.
• Find out what it means in this context.

Key Word or Phrase	Definition in context for your project
T-Shirt Singlet transfer fabric decoration digitally design

Define the term Limitation-

Limitation	Explain how this limitation impacts on the design brief

Create a mind map of all the possible resources that you could use to help you solve this design process.

Observation and Crtical Analysis - Material World Project - St Ursulas

CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS

(This will be one way of evaluating whether you have satisfied the brief at the end of your project)
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Factors Affecting Design

In Year 7 you were introduced to the factors that influence or affect design. This year you will evaluate in more detail using the following headings:

• function
• aesthetics
• human form
• scale
• ergonomics
• ethical
• environmental
• legislation
• cost
• socio-cultural
• resource availability
• physical and material properties
• safety

Many different factors affect a final design. Sometimes one factor is more important than another. In the design of a teapot, function is more important than aesthetics. In the design of a gown to be worn to the Academy Awards, aesthetics could be more important than function.

You should make reference to each factor influencing design in relation to your design brief. This will enable you to develop a successful solution

• Function Good design functions appropriately. It fulfils the purpose for which it was designed. You might ask what does the design have to do and not do? Does it need to have more than one function. Is it safe, durable, efficient..?
• Aesthetics Good design looks visually appealing . You might ask, What will make it look good? Is it to fit in a special place? Does it have to match or contrast with something else?
• Human Form Your design will affect people. People come in shapes and sizes, and whatever you design will be used by a person. Designers need to consider the ergonomic needs ( shapes and size) and the aesthetic needs ( likes and dislikes) of people.
• Scale The size or scale of a design can have an effect on its appeal. It is important that your design is the correct size and shape for people to use comfortably.
• Ergonomics The study of relationships between people and their workspace or surroundings. The size, shape and movements of people are very important if designs are to meet people’s needs.
• Ethical What is right? What is wrong? Ethics require that we design responsiblily in accordance with moral principles. It is not a question of ‘Can it be done?’ but also ‘Should it be done?’
• Environmental Taking care of the environment by the way we use resources is an important part of being a good designer. Designers should consider increasing energy costs and pollution of the environment when making decisions.
• Legislation There are laws to protect consumers from unfair trading, specific importing and exporting requirements and intensive safety legislation. Designers must be aware of these limitations. Products are regularly recalled if they if they do not meet safety requirements.
• Costs We must consider the end users ability to pay for the product, system or environment we produce.
• Socio–cultural Australia is a multicultural society and different cultures that make up our community have, and will continue to have an impact on the work of designers. Culture is the customs, ways of living, habits, skills, art, morals and leisure activities of a group. In the past Aborigines were expected to conform to European ways, and in many cases traditional cultural ways were lost or forgotten.
• Resource Availability Resources are the things you will use during you design project. Our world has a limited capacity to produce raw materials. If we use these materials at a rate faster than they can be replenished, this is known unsustainable.
• Physical and Material Properties You will need to understand the range of material available – know how they will behave or react in certain situations. Often there will not be one ‘best’ material, but a ‘most appropriate’ material given the circumstance. You will need to learn how to work with the selected materials
• Safety It is becoming increasingly important to ensure that what we produce is of a high standard of safety. Designers are responsible for the end users safety in using a product, system or environment.

Think about the above factors that will affect YOUR design: List them

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Write a statement explaining what you should consider for each factor that you have listed.